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1807-05-25

Port-au-Prince. The Saint-Marc expeditions leave

Haitian

“If, however, you should be unable to make yourself master of Saint-Marc, you will steer for Port-de-Paix without losing time, in order to relieve the courageous Haitians who are in arms there against tyranny. “Once arrived in that place, you must employ every means to spread the principles of liberty and justice that must always characterize the defenders of our constitution.”

Bazelais had under his orders Adjutants-General Lacroix and Lamarre. He embarked on a foreign ship of 960 tons, the *Lord Dorking*, which Captain Lewis, an American merchant, had placed at the disposal of the government. This ship had been loaded with 2,000 troops of various corps, with munitions of war, provisions and medicines. Adjutant-General Lamarre, full of enthusiasm, had embarked on the *Indépendance*, commanded by Gaspard. The expedition got under sail on the night of the 25th to the 26th of May.

In the course of the 25th the advance guard of the republican army left Port-au-Prince under General Yayou, making for Saint-Marc. Pétion was to create a diversion favorable to the insurgents of Port-de-Paix by compelling Christophe to weaken the troops he had set against them and to hasten to the relief of the threatened place, the chief town of the Artibonite.

Source  ·  p. 429 Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti, vol. III, p. 429